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PHOTO: RICHARD B. LEVINE/ZUMA PRESS
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More lawsuits: Eight school districts sued PowerSchool last week, accusing the education tech provider of failing to provide timely notice of the breach of student data after a December 2024 cyberattack. Dozens of individual students, parents and faculty from across the country have also sued the company, with many of those suits consolidated in U.S. district court in San Diego. (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools in Tennessee said the incident breached the personal data of more than 485,000 of its current and former students and nearly 24,000 current and former staff. PowerSchool says on its website that it does business with 16,000 schools in the U.S., Canada and other countries.
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PowerSchool paid a ransom to the hackers after several school districts reported further extortion attempts. More from WSJ Pro.
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Newspaper chain Lee Enterprises said a cyberattack earlier this year has so far cost it $2 million in direct costs. Lee, which runs papers in 25 states, said systems down for several days interrupted print publications and ad sales. The company warned investors the attack is likely to have material effects on its finances.
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Ransomware group Qilin has claimed to have 350 gigabytes of data from the attack; Lee said it is investigating. (Cybersecurity Dive)
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Google has reached a settlement with families who sued in 2019, accusing its YouTube unit of allegedly collecting data without parental consent about children who watched videos, according to a filing in federal court in San Jose, Calif. The two sides are expected to file a motion for approval of the proposed settlement by Aug. 11. (Bloomberg Law)
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New money: Theom, a startup that helps businesses safeguard and track sensitive data, raised $20 million in its latest investing round, drawing support from rival data platform giants Snowflake and Databricks, the company said Monday. (WSJ Pro Venture Capital)
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